Among Ellen Barkin's movies are Paul Newman's Harry & Son, Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, Blake Edwards' Switch, Mike Newell's Into the West, and Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Among Barkin's recent film appearances are those in Shit Year, The Chameleon, Operation: Endgame, Twelve, and Another Happy Day.

Evan Rachel Wood: Oscar hopeful at Academy's Governors Awards

In an elegant, no-frills blue dress, and sporting short hair, Evan Rachel Wood arrives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2011 Governors Awards, held in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Wood is a potential 2012 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award contender for her performance in George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, toplining Clooney and Ryan Gosling.

Governors Awards honorees

At the Governors Awards' veteran actor James Earl Jones (Dr. Strangelove, The Great White Hope) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar honoree, as he's co-starring opposite fellow veteran Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage. Redgrave took home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in Fred Zinnemann's Julia (1977), starring Jane Fonda.

Oprah Winfrey, a 1985 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple – but best known as a daytime TV talk show hostess – was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Evan Rachel Wood movies

The 24-year-old Evan Rachel Wood has been featured in nearly 20 films since her debut at age 10 in Timothy Hutton's Digging to China, co-starring Kevin Bacon.

'Mildred Pierce' remake

In Michael Curtiz's 1945 original film adaptation of James M. Cain's novel, Ann Blyth received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of (Best Actress winner) Joan Crawford's ungrateful daughter. Wood, for her part, was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe.

Sidney Poitier and daughter Sydney Tamiia Poitier

Sidney Poitier and daughter Sydney Tamiia Poitier attend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2011 Governors Awards, which took place in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, Nov. 12.

James Earl Jones (Best Actor Academy Award nominee for The Great White Hope, the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar honoree, as he's co-starring with Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage. Veteran make-up artist Dick Smith (Forever Young, Sweet Home, Dad), on the other hand, was present at the ceremony to receive his Honorary Oscar.

Diane Warren Oscar nominations

Songwriter Diane Warren, who has received six Oscar nominations for her songs, is pictured above on the Red Carpet at the 2011 Governors Awards at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood. Warren has yet to take home an Oscar statuette.

The films featuring the nominated Diane Warren songs were the following:

Mannequin (1987). She shared with Albert Hammond the nomination for the song “Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.”Cast: Andrew McCarthy. Kim Cattrall.

Son of Oscar winner Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond) and brother of two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda (Klute, Coming Home), among Peter Fonda's credits are The Wild Angels, The Trip, Easy Rider, with Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson; Dirty Larry Crazy Mary, with Susan George; Race with the Devil; Futureworld; and Killer Force. More recently, Fonda could be seen in Ghostrider, with Matt Long; 3:10 to Yuma, with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe; Smitty, with Mira Sorvino; and The Trouble with Bliss, with Michael C. Hall and Lucy Liu.

Malcolm McDowell and wife Kelley: Governors Awards' Red Carpet.

Malcolm McDowell

Actor Malcolm McDowell and wife Kelley arrive at the 2011 Governors Awards, held in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Actor James Earl Jones (the voice of Star Wars' Darth Vader) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar honoree, as he is starring opposite Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage.

But make-up artist Dick Smith, whose credits range from Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? and Taxi Driver to The Stepford Wives and The Sunshine Boys, was present at the ceremony to receive his Honorary Oscar.

Beloved star and mega-rich U.S. television talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Malcolm McDowell movies

Born on June 13, 1943, in Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, Malcolm McDowell is best known for his vicious – later tamed and then untamed – psychopath in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange.

His favorite actor is supposed to be Best Actor Oscar winner James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942); that may help to explain why the older McDowell gets, the more he resembles the Angels with Dirty Faces star.

Gore Verbinski, however, has no chance of getting a Best Director Oscar nomination this year. Not only was the Johnny Depp-Penélope Cruz pairing in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides a critical bomb, but it was directed by Rob Marshall.

But wait … Verbinski's Rango has a chance in various Academy Award categories, including Best Animated Feature. So there you go.

Among Melissa McCarthy's movie credits are Pretty Ugly People, The Back-Up Plan, Life As We Know It, Just Add Water, and the critical and commercial hit Bridesmaids. Ben Falcone had one of the male roles in female-oriented Bridesmaids – a possible Academy Award contender and a surefire Golden Globe nominee in the Best Comedy or Musical category.

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